New Financial Math Course Introduced at Pen Argyl High School

By Elijah Ceraul

Pen Argyl High School has been trying to incorporate new courses that are better suited towards students’ needs when it comes time to walk away from high school. One of the new courses is Financial Math. It was offered last year as well but only for three sections of the year, however this year the class is being offered all year.

Jeffery Meyers, math teacher, said, “Around the Spring of 2023 the new curriculum got approved and we started the new classes this year. I worked mostly alone while writing the curriculum, and I started in the summer of 2022 when I read up more on financial math books and looked over material relating to it.”

Meyers said, “I am still actively researching the course, I use the Money Guy quite often, and I just got a new book that I want to read, I get ideas from different places, I don’t like to use course work from all the same places as I like to teach about different ways students could do this depending on what works best for them personally.”

Meyers seems to take a different approach on what material to teach, as it is not so much traditional coursework, but skills that students can take with them and use for the rest of their lives. 

“I really enjoy teaching this class, and that it’s applicable to real life. It’s not really taught in a lot of other schools in our area, and it is just one of those things that I think, and I think most people would agree, every student should learn to have, I find it hard to think of something more useful than knowing what to do with your money,” Meyers said.